Icon of the Week: Martian Moves
Before their out-of-this-world parties, Martian Moves’ Luca Burgess, Michael Donlon, and Louis Bryan started mixing as a matter of necessity. Luca went to Pirate Studios during lockdown with mates simply because it “was one of the only places open during COVID”; after a surgery that mea
Icon of the Week: Patra
Patra Urairat performed her single ‘Aftercare’ live for the first time after its release in Univ Bar earlier this month. For the first time in her life, she had an audience screaming her lyrics back to her and dancing to the beats she and her partners had taken so long producing. I met he
Icon of the Week: Rebecca Harper
Going through the transcript of my conversation with Rebecca felt like deciphering a lost language. We sat down at Society Café at prime time and my poor iPhone microphone couldn’t phase out the bustle. About three minutes into the recording, we devolve into hysterics over our mutual love for Joh
Icon of the Week: Oliver Guilfoyle
Oliver will be a familiar face for anyone who has been to the open jam sessions at the Mad Hatter on a Wednesday evening. Previously the secretary of the University Jazz Society, they are now practically the house pianist of the Oxford bar. But they don’t flaunt it: as I met Oliver at their
Icon of the Week: Camille Etienne
Here’s an anecdote that will delight Isis readers, I thought to myself, a story that could almost single-handedly qualify her for our Icon of The Week: Camille Étienne was accused of hacking Björk’s Instagram account to post a video denouncing the insufficient protection of mari
Icon of the Week: Coco Cottam
Coco Cottam is no stranger to Icon of the Week. A former features director herself, Coco knows the highs and lows of the Icon cycle far better than I do. But as much as we here at The Isis might wish this to be the reason why Coco is so well known across Oxford, it […]
Icon of the Week: The Ultimate Picture Palace
“We want to make people feel like there’s a chance it could all burn down in a moment. Because that’s more fun.” I’m sat with Kit Finnie, lead projectionist at the Ultimate Picture Palace. Over the course of our conversation, one thing becomes apparent: the UPP is something t
Icon of the Week: Cocaine
“Do you mean the drink or the drug? It’s Oxford so I have to check!” said one person I was telling about this week’s Icon of the Week. “You’re doing it on cocaine?” another asked, presumably assuming this would be a 10,000-word article typed up in about 30 minutes.
Icon of the Week: ‘The History Gossip’, Katie Kennedy
Katie Kennedy, better known as The History Gossip, has a more impressive resume than the craziest ‘finance bro’ you know. She is a proud Geordie, a former BBC apprentice, a Durham alumna, a TikTok content creator with over 500,00 followers, a published author, and a current master’s stu